Creator |
Boell, William. |
Title |
View of Chestnut Street between 8 & 9 sts. (south side,) Philadelphia [graphic]. |
Publisher |
Philadelphia: Lith. print. & published by W. Boell 311 Walnut St |
Date |
1860 |
Physical Description |
1 print: lithograph, tinted with two stones and hand-colored; 46 x 90 cm.(18 x 35.25 in.) |
Description |
Busy street view showing businesses on the 800 block (802-824) of Chestnut Street. Majority of the storefronts show merchandise
displays in the windows. Includes a storefront to let (800); Lewis Ladomus & Co., watches, jewelry & silver ware (802); Theodore
H. McCalla, hats and caps (lower floor) and A. F. Lupus, morocco cases "upstairs" (804); Anthony Mustin, trimmings (806);
Charles Dummin, importer, musical instruments, fancy goods & toys (812); J.W. Scott, gentleman's furnishing store and shirt
manufactory (814); James S. Earle & Son, looking glasses & picture frames (816); Root Photographic Gallery operated by Dr.
Bushnell and Ladd Webster & Co., sewing machines (818); Caldwell & Co., jewelers (822); and the Continental Hotel tenanted
by Charles Stokes, "First Class Clothing One Price" and "Made to Order Short Notice," Charles Oakford & Sons, "hatters, furriers,
hats, caps, cans [sic] & umbrellas, gentleman's furnishing goods" (near the ladies entrance of the hotel) and Frederick Brown
Jr., druggist (824-838). Hotel also includes window shades for an unidentified store advertising watches and jewelry. In the
foreground, heavy street and pedestrian traffic is visible in front and across from the storefronts. Several horse-drawn vehicles
travel in the street past the sidewalks congested with pedestrians. Pedestrians include a newspaper boy, couples on promenade,
a gentleman escorting two ladies greeting another gentleman, and patrons looking at store windows and entering the businesses.
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Vehicles include a "Chestnut & Walnut Sts." omnibus, horse-drawn carriages, a partially unloaded dray, and a Farrel & Herring
(safe manufactory) delivery wagon drawn by three horses. Also shows men waiting at the main entrance of the hotel, mannequins
attired in suits displayed outside of Stokes, and a model eagle holding a watch adorning the roof of the store of Ladomus.
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Is referenced by |
Wainwright 421 |
Notes |
Philadelphia on Stone |
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POS 786 |
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Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 87 C 525a |
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Print torn in two. |
Subject |
Continental Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Clothing stores -- Pennsyvlania -- Philadelphia. |
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Hat industry -- Pennsyvlania -- Philadelphia. |
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Hotels -- Pennsyvlania -- Philadelphia. |
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Jewelry stores -- Pennsyvlania -- Philadelphia. |
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Photographic studios -- Pennsyvlania -- Philadelphia. |
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Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Merchandise displays -- Pennsyvlania -- Philadelphia. |
Geographic subject |
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 800 block. |
Genre |
Lithographs -- Tinted -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860. |
Location |
Historical Society of Pennsylvania| Print Department| HSP at LCP| HSP Bc 87 C 525a |